or "How I made it out of the Eikaiwa Ghetto !"

Well its now no secret; I have finally returned to the bosom of IT and gained what I would consider proper employment in Japan. The company is in Shibuya, which is quite a distance from where I live in Chiba (the burbs hick town of Tokyo). Commuting is going to take about 2hours a day each way, so thats 4hrs travelling everyday. Core time is 10 till 7, hour for lunch, half Japanese and Foreign staff (about 50/50 mix).
Its quite an interestign mix as the development team are all foreigners; American, Australian, English,French & Scottish. Very multicultural ! Sounds like there could almost be a punchline or a joke some where in there.The staff are really friendly and easy going and its great being able to speak and practice Japanese with my co-workers.

The work is mainly PHP and its quite tricky learning the ropes again. 1 year and 6 months of teaching English can crush those core skills ! Its been 3 weeks now and seems like I'm settling in.

At the moment look like I will be here for a good while after many months of surfing for job vacancies, many of which seemed inapplicable I was invited for interview and passed after 2 weeks notice. I'm finally FREE from eikaiwa !

or so I thought, until I tried to hand my notice in.....flame on